Online Literacy Activities

Podcasting

• Podium: www.podiumpodcasting.com/
• Children’s Example: www.podiumpodcasting.com/~182489/Year4150707164107/Episode1.mp3
• School Example: www.fitzmauriceschool.info/
• Audacity: http://audacity.sourceforge.net/download/
• Easi-Speak: www.tts-group.co.uk
• Playscripts: www.cideb.it/mp3/AESOP_Fables.DOC
• Music: http://www.incompetech.com/m/c/royalty-free/

Blogging

• WordPress: http://wordpress.com/
• Primary Nuggets: https://primarynuggets.wordpress.com/
• Children Example: http://legochallenge.wordpress.com/
• School Example: http://stmarksschool.wordpress.com/

Online Writing Activities

• Myths and Legends: http://myths.e2bn.org/index.php
• Comic Maker: www.artisancam.org.uk/flashapps/superactioncomicmaker/
• Headline History: www.headlinehistory.co.uk/
• Picture Book Maker: http://www.artisancam.org.uk/flashapps/picturebookmaker/picturebookmaker.php

Reading Resources – Click Here

Key Stage 1 and Foundation Stage

• Roy the Singing Zebra: www.roythezebra.com/index.html
• Star Writer: www.kented.org.uk/ngfl/games/starwriter.html
• Word Magnets: www.xmleducation.co.uk/magnets.html
• Big Day Out: http://bdo.swgfl.org.uk/
• Phonics Play: http://www.phonicsplay.co.uk/

Internet Safety Resources

Other Useful Resources

• Literacy Games: www.kented.org.uk/ngfl/games/literacy_menu.html
• ICT Games: www.ictgames.com/literacy.html
• Crickweb: www.crickweb.co.uk/
• Electronic Text: www.ict.oxon-lea.gov.uk/weblinks/pri_literacy.html
• Literacy Shed: http://www.literacyshed.com/
• Michael Rosen: http://www.michaelrosen.co.uk/
• Talking Pets: www.talkingpets.org
• A previous posting about using Film Clips in Literacy: https://primarynuggets.wordpress.com/2008/03/26/film-clips-for-visual-literacy/

Non Fiction

• BBC Newsround: http://news.bbc.co.uk/cbbcnews/default.stm

Spelling Games

• Look, Cover, Write, Check: www.crickweb.co.uk/assets/resources/flash.php?&file=looksay2
• TutPup: http://tutpup.com/plays/new/2-word-game
• Spelling City: www.spellingcity.com/

Please use the comment box below to let me know what you think about these resources or if you know of any others I have missed. Thanks